[Talk-GB] ITO! World Tools

[Brian Prangle]

Hi Shaun

Would it be possible for itoworld to let us ( the UK chapter) have the
source code for the road names feature - we're keen to replicate it using
the new source of OS road names from OS Open Roads and we're hoping that
other than dealing with a new datasource the comparison logic and rendering
backend could be re-used. It might lessen the development effort and it
might be easier to get some volunteers.

Regards

Brian

On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 at 10:51, Shaun McDonald <shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk>
wrote:

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> On 28 Nov 2019, at 10:26, SK53 <sk53.osm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The big difference of the old Locator layer from ITO is that it displayed
> the name. The other tool which used OS locator is Robert Scott's OSL
> Musical Chairs <https://ris.dev.openstreetmap.org/oslmusicalchairs/map>.
> Both suffer because OS Locator was last released in 2016.
>
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> The OS Locator data having last been released in 2016, with no plans to
> update to the OS Open Roads mentioned below, and the majority of the UK
> having street names. Combined with no new streets ever going to come up,
> and demolished/removed street names needing to have the not:name forever
> more, a hardware failure, were all contributory factors for the service
> being discontinued.
>
>
> One way to get potentially missing names is to use OS Open Roads. These
> are big shape files, so its probably best to cut them down using something
> like ogr2ogr, or QGIS. The file can be pulled in as a custom layer in iD,
> Potlatch and as a standard layer in JOSM.
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> On 28 Nov 2019, at 10:30, Jez Nicholson <jez.nicholson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As Jerry says, the key feature was that it compared OS road names to OSM
> and highlighted the differences.
>
> The Microsoft Open Data Team recently analysed
> streets-with-no-name-but-lots-of-houses which threw up positive hits, and
> some potentially false positives of new housing estates which do not have
> road names yet and auxiliary service roads.
>
> I'd like to see a new tool be built....i'd also like someone to fund it
> being built and sustain it either through a grant or donated work.
>
>
> We at Ito are also hopeful that the community would implement new more up
> to date tools with a more modern look.
>
> Shaun McDonald
> Ito World
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